Posted April 19, 201015 yr comment_5449694 The Rock 'N' Roll RPMs vs. Bob Bradley & The Grappler JIP and EIP. Clips aren't bad once Grappler gets in the ring. Red River Jack vs. Tim Brooks Kinda boring. Gary Hart comes out later with Nord the Barbarian to threaten him while Nord tosses stuff around. Eric Embry vs. Rick DuBois Eric is fun riling up the crowd, but otherwise, this is kind of a mediocre squash. Hart/Holliday/Nord Interview Gary Hart introduces Jim Holliday (and, offhandedly, Eli the Eliminator) and announces the formation of the new H&H International. Holliday introduces himself, and then Nord gets a bit of mic time and is hilarious. This might be an extra for World Class' lean years. The Dingo Warrior & David Manning vs. Nord the Barbarian & Gary Hart JIP. Red River Jack was supposed to be Manning's partner, but he had "flight delays", so the Warrior has to step in. Meanwhile, Bruiser Brody just happens to be at ringside for no given reason. Manning looks like the best guy in the match, really eating a beating from the heel team. I thought Nord stepped up his game here, too. Eventually, Red River Jack shows up (apparently he was delayed because he had to get a shave and a haircut), and he and Brody are seen together, so clearly, they're not the same guy. Extra. The Rock 'N' Roll RPMs vs. Bob Bradley & The Grappler This is the match they showed in part earlier. It's a lot worse in full. Mike Von Erich vs. Brian Adias (If Mike pins Adias in under 10 minutes, Adias pays him $2500) About as bad as it looks on paper. The Missing Link vs. Jack Victory JIP, pretty much just in time for Link to finish Jack off. Percy Pringle shows up afterwords, seemingly to reconcile with Link, who had just split from him, but it's all a set-up so Rick Rude can attack Link with a steel chair. Sunshine runs out and dispatches Rude with the aerosol spray, but Percy knocks it out of her hands, and is about to use it on her when Link headbutts him out of the ring. Percy actually takes a pretty nice bump over the top rope. Didn't know he could do that. Maybe extra. Iceman King Parsons vs. Buddy Roberts Their actual feud has been over for a couple of years now, but you wouldn't know it from the way they work each other, as they are just as stiff as ever. Iceman's selling down the stretch was top notch. The match has a ten-minute time limit, which expires while Buddy has things going his way. He demands five more minutes, and Iceman accepts even though he's hurting, and he manages to comeback. Buddy leaps over the top rope, just narrowly dodging a Butt Butt, and flees the Sportatorium. These two just always match up so great with each other. I figure that will be documented well enough that I don't need to nominate this, but I was really tempted. Mark Youngblood vs. Jack Victory Really good match, with both guys laying into each other. Usually like to have full babyface comebacks in my matches, but for one-move comebacks, Youngblood's Thesz press was pretty boss. Brian Adias vs. Michael Hayes It's a real shame this match didn't have a finish, as not only is it one of the rare strong in-ring performances by Adias, it's probably the only time I really actively got behind him as a babyface. It helps that he had such a great foil in Hayes, and Hayes was in rare form here. But still, Adias' copying of Hayes' strut, his constant playing to the crowd, and his great selling all made him really compelling here in ways that he usually wasn't. Tatum & Missy at Home Bill Mercer is invited over, and Tatum welcomes him inside, where Missy is in the bathtub. She doesn't seem to mind Mercer's presence there, and we get the unlikeliest of Welles-style deep focus scenes, with Tatum in the background replaying video of his win over The Missing Link over and over again and gloating in hilarious fashion, and Missy in the foreground talking about how Tatum is going to win all his matches from now on while titillating the audience (she actually starts to get up at one point to get Tatum to knock it off with the Link tape, only for Mercer to nervously talk her back down). Funny, sexy, and an easy extra. Kerry Von Erich & The Missing Link vs. John Tatum & One Man Gang If the introductions are any indication, this was the first time Link used "Bang Your Head" as his theme music. Tatum comes roaring out of the gates, but the faces soon put a stop to that, and we get a bunch of fun Tatum stooging, including him trying to show up the Link by banging a chair against his own head, which works out about as well as you'd expect for him. Faces dominate until Missy cheats to win, but Lubich comes out from the back and reverses the decision. This was a lot of fun, and I think it could be an extra.
